Natural Claim

On his official website, Chul Soon claims to be natural. However, if you go to any bodybuilding forum, you’ll find people questioning if he is. Fact is, he’s incredibly buff and his muscles look nearly photoshopped.

Frequent readers of our blog will know that just appearance is often not enough to determine steroid use. Therefore we must look at different types of evidence.

In this article, we’re going to find out if the Korean bodybuilder is, in fact, natural, or if he has used steroids.

Drug Testing History

The federation a bodybuilder competes with often says a lot about the bodybuilder. Some are known to be popular amongst steroids users. Other leagues test thoroughly for drugs and only attract real natural bodybuilders.

Muscle Mania, the federation Chul Soon competes with drug tests their top 5 contestants when they come off stage. If any traces of steroids are in the bloodstream, an athlete cannot participate for 24 months.

What’s suspicious about this testing policy is that the tests are not at random; this means a bodybuilder can stop using steroids just in time for it not to show up in the tests.

The federations that are known to attract real natural bodybuilders will perform several tests at random moments making it nearly impossible to use steroids.

To conclude, steroid users can pass Muscle Mania its tests, but this doesn’t automatically mean that Chul Soon uses steroids.

His Transformation

A great way to determine steroid use is looking at someone their transformation.

Natural bodybuilders typically plateau after a couple of years. If a bodybuilder suddenly starts packing on a crazy amount of muscle they’re very likely taking steroids.

Is this the case with Chul Soon? Let’s find out.

2008

We can see that at this point Chul Soon already was in great shape and had been lifting for a few years.

2009

At this point, Chul Soon maintained his physique and looked similar to how he did in ’08 one year earlier.

2012

In 2012 Chul Soon got much more significant than he was before. We estimate he packed on approximately fifty extra pounds of lean muscle mass at this point. These are typical gains for a steroid user.

Shoulders

Chul Soon arguably has the best shoulders in professional bodybuilding.

They’re huge!

A natural bodybuilder can develop big shoulders, but this 3-d effect as we can see in Chul Soon is something we usually see in steroid users and rarely in natural bodybuilders.

That’s because the shoulders relatively have a lot of androgen receptors and steroids are androgenic. Muscle groups that have many of these receptors grow relatively straightforward when a bodybuilder uses steroids.

Facial Changes

Chul soon his face significantly changed with time; this is something we typically see as a side effect of HGH use. Taking growth hormone may alter facial features, often the nose and skull are affected.

Some of our frequent readers may wonder why he doesn’t have a bloated gut, another side effect of HGH. Well, that only happens when HGH is in a stack with Insulin.

Verdict

We think it’s very likely that the bodybuilder has used steroids to build his physique.

He started gaining tons of muscle years after he first started lifting